Penthouse Ditches Print Magazine And Goes Digital

Trending News: Internet Porn Killed Another Classic Porn Magazine

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Long Story Short

Penthouse magazine is shuttering the print edition of its magazine because it can’t compete with internet porn.

Long Story

Apparently sex doesn’t sell anymore.

Penthouse is tossing out the print edition of its magazine and going completely digital, according to a report by CNBC. The classic porn mag with nude girls (there's articles, too) is closing its New York City office and moving operations to its Los Angeles office where it’ll focus on the digital version and work with AdultFriendFinder, an online hookup service owned by the same company.

"This will be a new way for its readers to experience the world's best adult magazine," the company said in a statement, as reported by CNBC. "Reimagined for the preferred consumption of content today by consumers, the digital version of Penthouse Magazine will combine and convert everything readers know and love about the print magazine experience to the power of a digital experience."

The days of physically picking up your first porn magazine, or your dad physically handing one to you for the first time, are over. In October, Playboy offered a similar blow to the male rite of passage of decades past by vowing to stop printing nude girls. So who killed these two classic dirty mags and likely the industry of paper-printed porn in general? Clearly, internet porn and its free easy access to any type of porn you fancy (and it’s in moving pictures!).

Subscribers to Penthouse will be able to relish their last few mags as Penthouse will keep printing for a little while during the transition. After that, subscribers can continue reading the digital version with an online subscription.

Do we bid a fond farewell to the famous porn mags that got many-a-young-man in trouble with their parents (and many dads in trouble with their wives), or simply let it go like a box of old toys as a relic of the past? Go ahead and reminisce anonymously, or out in the open if you like, over on guyQ.

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Ask The Big Question: Will porn mag readers miss the tactile feeling of paper like book readers do with ereaders?

Disrupt Your Feed:Penthouse's announcement went without barely a peep on social media or the mainstream press. What does that say?

Drop This Fact: The September 1984 edition of Penthouse was the second highest selling magazine edition of all time for a U.S. magazine. However, it also included a centrefold spread of a nude girl that turned out to be 16-years-old, making anyone in possession of the edition at risk of being charged for possessing child pornography.

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